Big Sean People Quotations

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I want people to feel like they can do anything.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.

I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.

G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.